Machine for simultaneously printing and embossing paper.



' No. 680,533. Patented Aug. [3, I90.

I E. E. MARINIER & E. L. NAVGIT. MACHINE FUR SIMULTANEOUSLY PRINTING ANDEWiBOSSING PAPER.

(Application filed June 21, 1898.)

FlC 1- fie. 68%,533. Patenimi Aug. !3, I906. E. E. MARINIEB & E.'L.NAVGIT. EACHINE F03 SERWLTANEOUSLY PRBMTINE AND EMBG$SING PAPER.

(Application filed June 91, 1898.) I (Ho Model.) 2 Sheeie-8heet 2.

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' ATENT FRANCE.

MACHINE FOR SIMULTANEOUSLY PRINTING AND EMBOSSING PAPER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 680,533, dated August13, 1901.

Application filed June 21, 1898.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, ERNEST EDOUARD MARINIER and EUGENE LoUIs NAVOIT,citizens of the Republic of France, residing at Paris, France, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Apparatus for Printing,Embossing, or Ornamenting Fabrics and the Like, of which the followingis a specification.

The present invention relates to a machine whereby by a single passageof the material through the machine and by a single contact of thismaterial with the engraved printingcylinder the material issimultaneously embossed and printed. The printing may be in any desirednumber of colors deposited at the desired places not only in theintaglio parts of the embossing-rollers, but also in the relief parts.This operation constitutes a new means of mechanically obtaining thisresult by-a single contact with the embossingroller, which result couldnot be obtained by the various kinds of machines known up to the presenttime.

In order to arrive at a clear understanding of our invention, we give'the following description, with the aid of the accompanying drawings, inwhich- Figures 1 and 2 are diagrammatic views illustrating the essentialcharacteristic features of our invention. Figs. 3 and 4 are views by wayof example of a machine con-- structed according to this invention, themachine being represented in elevation in Fig. 3, while Fig. is a rightside elevation of Fig. 3, the inking-rollers shown in Fig. 3 beingomitted in Fig. 4 to permit an easier understanding in thi's'figure ofthe combination of the essential parts of the machine.

The improved machine for producing the above result comprises, as shownin Fig. 1 of the accompanying drawings, a main colorreceiving cylinder afor applying to-the intaglio and relief portions of the engravedprinting-cylinder b all the colors which must finally appear on thereliefs or in the recessed portions of the embossed paper or material.With this object the cylinder a, the diameter of which is equal to or amultiple of that of the cylinder b, receives on its relief and in itsSerial No. 684,106. (No model.)

sary colors. The application of these colors is effected in the ordinarymanner by a series of supplementary color-rollers, each color beingtaken up by ordinary inking-rollers arranged about the circumference ofthe central roller a and by them deposited on a transfer-roller, whichin its turn transmits it to the cylinder a, each of thesetransfer-rollers being so formed as only to receive the color on thoseparts of its periphery corresponding to the relief or intaglio parts ofthe cylinder a on which the particular color is to be de-' posited. Thecylinder a thus receives in its rotary motion all the colors from theinkingrollers with which it is in contact, each color being applied inits correct place thereon, and it is thus able to transmit them in itsturn to the reliefs or intag-lio portions of thecorrespondingly-engraved printing and embossing cylinder b. In thismanner the various colors are deposited in the hollows or on the reliefportions at the desired places in a single continuous operation, whilethe complete embossing of the material printed upon takes place at thesame time as the printing.

AND EUGENE LOUIS NAVOIT, or PARIS,

Let us take, for instance, the cylinder 0, Fig.

1, which may be of rubber and which is so engraved or formed that onlythose parts which are to transmit color-.-say red-are in relief. Thiscylinder 0 receives from its inking-rollers (not shown in Fig. 1,as-they may be of any convenient arrangement) the red color on itsrelief portions and transfers it to the corresponding parts of thecentral cylinder a, which is an exact multiple of the engraved cylinder1), to' which it inturn transmits the color. in g the roller 0 isrotated at a similar peripheral speed to that of the cylindera, so thatBy means of suitable gearthe reliefs of the cylinder 0 correspond with Athe reliefs of the cylinder a which are to receive the red color. Thereliefs of the cylinder'c, of rubber or any other material, coincideonly at the moment'of the contact with the relief portions of thecylinder a, and thus transfer to the reliefs of the cylinder to the redcolor with which they themselves are charged. Similarly and successivelythe relief parts 1 2 3 4 5 of the cylinder 0 charged with red color comeinto contact with the corresponding reliefs 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 of thecylinder (1, of which they are exact counterparts, and cover them withthe red color. These relief portions of the cylindera are supplied withred color. When, therefore, these relief portions come into contact at,d with the corresponding recesses of the engraved cylinder 1), theserecesses will be charged with the red color, and when they arrive at e,the contact-point of the engraved cylinder b and of thepressure-cylinder f, the color in the recesses will be deposited on thematerial "xg,-iwhich will at the same time be embossed in relief owingto the rollerf being provided with the corresponding design in relief.This operation of embossing and printing in red is therefore effected byone and the same operation at the point e. Let us assume that at thesame time other parts of the cylinder a receive blue color from thecorresponding engraved cylinder g and yellowfrom the cylinder h in thesame way as has just been described for the red color, and it will beobvious that as the cylinder arotates it will transfer the yellow andblue colors received from the cylinders h and g to the engraved cylinder12 at the contact-point d, and similarly the colors so deposited in thecorresponding recesses in the cylinder b will in turn be transferredatthe point e to the material a: y and simultaneously be embossed andprinted in relief at one and the same time, i

Around the cylinder at a number of cylinders of rubber or other suitablematerial may be placed, according to the diameter of the said cylindera. Each supplementary or feedm y n er m y apply one or more colors, as

it ma itself not like the cylinder a-viz., it may stile-receiver in asimilar manner of several colors from auxiliary rollers 'arranged aroundit, which colors it transmits to the cylinder a. Thus the cylinder '11instead of only transmitting to the cylinder 02, say, green color, forinstance, can take from two or more auxiliary cylinders with which itisin;conta'ct two or more dilfere'nt colors, which it will then transmitto the cylinder a, by which means it is possible simultaneously to printand emboss a great number of colors.

' the recessed parts of the embossed material at Up to the present wehave only taken into consideration the printing of reliefs. It is easy,however, to understand that the inkingcylinders may be formed in such amanner that their relief portions exactly correspond to the intaglioportions of the cylinders a, so that they deposit their color in therecessed parts of the cylinder at. The cylinder 11 will in its turndeposit this color on the corresponding relief portions of the engravedcylinder b, which will in its turn deposit it in the contact-point e,Fig. 2.

The machine represented in Figs. 3 and 4 as a constructive example ofthe inventionis constituted toemboss and print in four colors. Thedesign represented on the cylinder at, Fig. 4, is to be embossed inrelief and printed in four difierent colors on the material a: 2 Theparts mn 0 p of this designate to be printed, respectively, in blue,green,,red, and yellow, for instance. In the machine illustrated thecylinder (1 has a diameter'equal to three times that of theprinting-cylinder b, and the cylinder f a diameter double the'size ofthat of the same cylinder 6. The design indicated on the cylinder at isreproduced once in intaglio on the cylinder b, twice in relief onthec'ylinder f, and three times in relief on the cylinder a. The fourmain color-rollers q s t being provided, respectively, in relief withreplicas of the four parts m n o p of the design, as shown in Fig. 4,the relief portion of each of these rollers receives from suitableinking-rollers the color corresponding to that part of the design whichit represents. Thusthe relief m of the roller t willreceive blue ink,the relief it, of the roller s green, and soon, and these colors will betransferred in the manner described to the material a: g, which will bes1- mnltaneously-embossed as it passes between I the cylinders b and f.

We claiml. A machine for simultaneously printing and embossing paper andother material comprising an embossing-cylinder, provided with 5 reliefand intaglio portions, a pressure-roller, a main intaglio and reliefink-receiving cylinder which tn rns in contact with :1. correspondingembossing-cylinder andreceives colors either in its recesses or on therelief parts, and

during its rotation transports them to theeorresponding parts of theembossing-cylinder, so that the latter in conjunction with a corresponding pressureq'oller applies the colors to the material and at thesame time embosses it, at the single operation, substantially asdescribed. 7

2. In an apparatus as described, the combi- 4 nation with a printing andembossing roller, of a receiving-roller having relief and intaglioportions corresponding respectively-with the intaglio and reliefportions of-the embossingroller, the'latter and the receiving-rollerbeing arranged to rotate relatively to each other and to cooperate asset forth whereby the raised and recessed portions of thereceivingrollerwilltransfer color respectively to the correspondingdepressed and raised portions of the printing and embossing roller,independent color-applying rollers arranged to rotate in contact'withand adapted to transfer different colors to the receiving-roller, and apressure-roller arranged to coeperate with the printing and embossingroller, and having raised portions corresponding withthe depressions ofsaid printing-roller and depressed portions corresponding with theraised portions of same. a

3. In an apparatus as described a. central ink-collecting rollerprovided with a design in intaglio and relief on its circumference, aprinting and embossing cylinder in contact therewith and having thedesign correspondingly in relief and intaglio, a pressure-roller incontact with the printing and embossing roller and having the designcorrespondingly in intaglio and relief, a series of color-supply rollersabout the circumference of the inkcollecting cylinder each color-supplyroller having that portion of the design which is to appear in itsrespective color formed in relief on its circumference and a series ofcolorfeeding rollers for each color-supply roller substantially asdescribed.

4. In an apparatus as described, the combination with anembossing-roller, of a collecting-roller having embossed portionscorresponding with the recessed portions of the embossing-roller anddepressed portions corresponding with the raised portions of the roller,the latter and roller arranged to rotate relatively to each other and tocooperate as set forth whereby the raised portions of roller willtransfer colors to the depressed portions of roller, independentcolor-applying rollers arranged to rotate in contact with and adapted totransfer difierent colors to the raised portions of thecollecting-roller, a supplernentary roller arranged to cooperate withthe roller and having portions adapted to come in contact with theraised portions of said roller, color-applying rollers adapted totransfer colors to the portions of said supplementary roller which 'comein contact with the raised portions of roller, and a roller arranged tocooperate with roller and having raisedportions corresponding with thedepressions of said roller and depressed portions corresponding with theraised portions of the latter roller.

7 In witness whereof we hereto set our hands in the presence of the twosubscribing witnesses.

' ERNEST EDOUARD MARINIER.

EUGENE LOUIS NAVOI'I. \Vitnesses:

LOUIS SULLIGER, EDWARD P. MACLEAN.

